Word: grand
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...honor of his soldier father, Colonel Anderson thought it appropriate to decorate the bridge with symbols of war and peace. But sculptors of the period seldom let art stand in the way of such a grand theme, and the resulting decorations reminded a modern critic of illustrations from an old edition of Bulfinch's Mythology. With all the subtle reserve of Victorian design, one medallion contains a Roman corselet, a sword and a helmet, shields, sprays of laurel leaves, Roman faces, spear heads, part of a fortress, and, topping all, an American eagle bearing a thunderbolt...
...probably more grandiose in their dreams than most major poets or opium smokers. Since that ambitious and ill-fated building project, the Tower of Babel, they have thought up endless projects to improve the universe, and an astonishing number of them have become reality, from the pyramids to Grand Coulee Dam. From those that have not yet come true, popular-science Writer Willy Ley has compiled a new book, Engineers' Dreams (Viking; $3.50). In it, he tells some of the projects modern engineers might accomplish-if they could get rid of political, social and economic...
Across the Pacific. Through the '30s, M-K worked on big dams: Bonneville (on the Washington-Oregon line), Imperial. Grand Coulee (Washington), a total construction effort of more than $300 million. M-K built the San Francisco side of the 4,620-ft. Bay Bridge, upped its railroad work to a steady $10 million a year. Despite the Depression, M-K showed a profit in every year except...
Chicago & Grand Opera: "As you will remember, the Egyptian priests in Plato's story told Solon: "You Greeks are only boys.'... And like America [the Greeks] were rather violent. I can imagine the Persians and Egyptians saying to one another, 'I say, isn't it shocking how many murders get committed in Greece?' . . . But the murders didn't stop things from getting done. I fancy the place I have been in that was most like Greece was a gathering of university scholars at Chicago! The city was disorderly but very much alive...
...Germans are emotionally and musically susceptible. Wagner appeals to their pride of race. I venture to think that if you had in England a series of really stunning grand operas with gorgeous music and pageantry glorifying England from the Tudors up to 1914, that in a generation they could wreck the English genius for political self-government...